THE PRESIDENT considers that the misjudged youths calling themselves Communists who have been arrested for demonstrating in front of the Executive offices should be released and sent to their parents.
He does not believe that any such discourtesy seriously endangers the Republic and that a night in jail is only doing them a favor of cheap martyrdom.
Note: The above text is taken from corroborated accounts printed by the New York Times and the New York Herald Tribune.
Police arrested a group of 50 self-proclaimed Communist demonstrators for parading without a permit. The demonstration, which occurred in front of the White House, ended with no destruction to property or injury to the participants. After their release the demonstrators assembled at the Woman's Christian Temperance Union Memorial at Seventh Street and Pennsylvania Avenue and denounced the President's action as an effort to prevent pro-Communist feelings from sweeping the Nation. No further arrests were made.
Herbert Hoover, White House Statement on a Communist Demonstration. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/209210